This study explores the role of different speakers’ L1 vowel compactness on their L2 vowel production efficiency. It is found in study [4] that Spanish speakers who have more compact L1 vowel space can perform better than those “dispersed” speakers in the distinction and production of French vowels, including both the L2 “assimilated” vowel-contrasts, ones similar to the L1 vowel categories, an...

In his article "Literary Geography and Comparative Literature" César Domínguez analyzes the relevance of political and linguistic frameworks for comparative literary historiography in the context of the European Union. Domínguez's discussion is based on the notion of geoculture whose theorization from Immanuel Wallerstein's perspective presents paradigms of interest to comparative literature. T...

This article is a sociolinguistics study that investigates the diglossia phenomenon and its impact on language use, maintenance, policy in context of Meto speaker communities Indonesia. The identifies potential loss high variety due to dominance low variety, which used more frequently informal contexts. shift towards can result linguistic cultural diversity lead shift, where less used. highligh...

The Arabic language is characterized as a diglossic language. Hence, this study dealt with sociolinguistic phenomenon and examine the impact of situation in terms social communication learning process based on second learners’ perspective. starts reviewing discussing literature by considering diglossia from both linguistic educational perspectives. To achieve research objectives researcher used...

Singapore English, a recently nativised (Gupta 1994) variety of English, has often been analysed in terms of a continuum (Pakir 1991; Platt 1975; Poedjosoedarmo 1995). A more recent approach (Gupta 1994, 2001) regards this variation as one reflecting a diglossic situation: Standard (Singapore) English is H(igh), Colloquial Singapore English (‘Singlish’) is L(ow). This paper presents findings fr...

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